Holy Toledo!

Lake Erie first lake to be granted same rights as a human [More]

I don't suppose the argument that rights aren't granted by voters will be persuasive here.

This is an urban Democrat wealth redistribution scam, plain and simple. You know, commie parasites stealing from the productive.

Where I live (130 miles from Toledo and 20 miles from the lake as the crow flies), I'm actually billed for sewer by my sewer district, which maintains the infrastructure, and also by Cuyahoga County, because evidently the drainage culvert out front by the road is somehow deemed to seep into a watershed that ultimately finds its way to the Mighty Cuyahoga and then into the lake (although my annual springtime application of Weed & Feed Turf Builder has nowhere near the impact of just one passenger taking a cruise on the Goodtime III).

Hey, at least we're not Detroit.

[Via Steve T] 

Good Thing Most Americans Have Short Attention Spans and Memories

Waco Biker Massacre Prosecutions Continue to Fall Apart as Last Set of Original Indictments Dismissed [More]

Don't hold your breath waiting for them to indict the real criminals.

[Via Michael G]

What's in a Name?

Brady gun control group gets rebranding [More]

So I guess my suggestion of "Treasonous Motherf***ers Trying to Start a Civil War" didn't resonate?

Game of Thrones

The broadening revelations of the lawless, almost putschist excesses of the Comey-McCabe FBI and elements of the Justice Department and the Brennan-Clapper intelligence services invite serious contemplation of how close the United States came to being a country where regime change might be plausibly and self-righteously attempted by what in undemocratic countries is generally known as the secret police. [More]

It's not so much that they're out of control as it is about who's controlling them.

[Via Mack H]

Heresy!

“I will never forget,” she told me, “I fired her Glock 17, and the moment I fired it, I knew if I had this on me the night that I was attacked, I would not have been raped. Firearms are an equalizer,” she said. “They are the greatest equalizer between a five-foot-five woman like myself and the six-foot-tall man who raped me.” [More]

Any room left in that alligator pit?

[Via Mack H]

International Harvester

True Confessions of Texas Vote Harvesters [More]

Looks like next harvest will be even better.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Reconciled Enough

Leuser faced charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, but at a hearing Tuesday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, his son said he didn’t want his father to spend any time in prison. [More]

The son has the option to not sue his father in civil court.  Once it's a criminal matter, it's "THE PEOPLE vs...."

I guess Judge Hill is right -- these aren't "normal circumstance."

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile, Over at the Fundamental Transformation...

Ilhan Omar: Poster Child for the Red-Green Axis [More]

Was it Bush or Orwell who said "Our diversity is our strength"?

When in Danger, When in Doubt

Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided - There’s scant evidence that they’re effective. They can, however, be psychologically damaging—and they reflect a dismaying view of childhood. [More]

Yeah, but in fairness, what kind of rightwing extremist would expect adults to be capable of protecting their charges? Or I should say, expect Opposite Day "progressive educators" to act like responsible adults...?

[Via Felix B]

A Sharp Increase

Police reported more than 4,100 knife-related crimes in 2018, compared to around 3,800 reported during 2017 — and only 400 in 2008. Overall, during the past ten years, knife-related crimes in Germany have increased by more than 900% — from one a day to more than ten a day. [More]

I wonder if Mourtala Madou can help shed any light on why that might be...

[Via Michael G]

But What If Watching Others Get Viciously Attacked Relieves My Anxiety?

The mother of a 5-year-old girl mauled in the face by a pit bull at Portland International Airport has filed a $1.1 million lawsuit against the Port of Portland for allegedly letting a dangerous “emotional support animal” into the airport without a carrier. [More]

I was going to say something flippant about not being able to bring my emotional support Komodo Dragon to the daycare, but the truth is not that far off, albeit at least that's by invitation.

I get seeing eye dogs and the like, but there are a lot of attention-demanding headcases out there imposing their neuroses on everybody else.  It's a wonder the gun-grabbers haven't invented some new kind of "loophole" to disarm them, but in truth, my bet would be we're dealing with Democrats here.

We're the Only Ones Unbonded Enough

No bail for Lawrence cop charged in rape of 13-year-old boy [More]

It must be tough to have them also concerned with what you do out of uniform...

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Physical Enough

Ramsey County Sheriff says corrections officer convicted last year in connection to physical treatment of inmate has resigned [More]

That video works better with a little background music...

[Via bondmen]

Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying What, Exactly?

Weld may join Fremont as “Second Amendment Sanctuary” county [More]

Let me know when their militia refuses to disperse.

[Via cydl]

A Hunting We Will Go!

Be vewy, vewy quiet. [More]

Or what the hell...

Maybe some loud, angry noise and an absolutist rejection of Fuddism are what is needed.

Especially with wascally Wepublicans.

Gun Background Check Bill Won’t Stop Violence but Helps ID Republican Turncoats

What incentive will voting for “Republicans” like these give the GOP to offer better candidates? [More]

What do you call someone who remains with a partner who brazenly cheats?